Semitic studies

Semitic studies,orSemitology,is the academic field dedicated to the studies ofSemitic languagesand literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called aSemiticistor aSemitist,both terms being equivalent.

It includesAssyriology,Arabic,Hebraist,Syriacist,Mandaean,andEthiopianstudies, as well as comparative studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstruction ofProto-Semitic.

See also

• Asian studies
• African studies
• Philology

Sources

• Gotthelf Bergsträsser:Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen: Sprachproben und grammatische Skizzen,Nachdruck, Darmstadt 1993.
• Carl Brockelmann:Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen,Bd. 1-2, 1908/1913.
• David Cohen:Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques.
• Giovanni Garbini, Olivier Durand:Introduzione alle lingue semitiche(1994),ISBN88-394-0506-2(review: Franz Rosenhal; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996).
• Robert Hetzron(ed.):The Semitic Languages,London 1997.
• Burkhart Kienast:Historische semitische Sprachwissenschaft,Wiesbaden 2001.

External links

• Media related toSemitic studiesat Wikimedia Commons